Improvement in fences



UNTTED STATES PATENT y EETCE.

vJ. E. KENDEIGH, OF AMHERST, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN FENCES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 53,153, dated March 13, 18Go'.

To all whom 'it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J. E. KENDEIGH, of Amherst, in the county of Lorain and State Ohio, have invented certa-in new and useful Improvements in Fence-Posts and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and complete deseription of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this speciication, in which- Figure 1 is a front view. Fig. 2 is a side view. Fig. 3 is a rear view.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several views.

My improvement relates to a fence-post so constructed as to be adapted to all the ordinary fence-work, being made of 011e entire piece and so formed as to resist all transverse strain.

A represents the post, that is east in one entire. piece. B is a rib, (shown in Fig. 2,) that forms a part of the post, which it aids in strengthening. Gis the pedestal, that is fixed in the ground and on which the post rests, the base G being bolted to it by means of bolts a, which bolts pass through slots a in the base of the post. D D are flanges on Which-the rails of the fence rest, the rail c being bolted to the flange D and the rail c to the flange D in the same manner. The rail/,0' is also shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 3.

E represents the'bottom board of the felice. In the sides of the post are grooves F, one lof which is seen in Fig. 2, which groove receives the end of the board E.

Any ordinary fence is strong enough to ref sist the lateral strain, but not to resist the greater strain, which is transverse or at right: angles to the fence. In this post the rib B is for the purpose of giving strength to it and enables it to resist all strain, either lateral oi' transverse, the post A being hollow and the rib B extending into it, (shown iu .Fig 2,

where the post is broken away at e e, showing J. E. KENDEIGH.

Witnesses W. I-I. BUREIDGE, J. HOLMES. 

